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'''PlateSmart''' Technologies is a mass surveillance system vendor headquartered in Oldsmar, Florida. Founded in 2004, the company released their first version of the platform in 2008. PlateSmart was originally made for perimeter security. By tapping into CCTV camera feeds, PlateSmart would keep a log of what vehicles were inside a specific area, by Automated License Plate Reading.  In 2012, the platform could was deployed around the RNC convention, allowed "law enforcement to identify the owner of virtually any car that comes near the convention in an instant."<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20140117043219/http://www.abcactionnews.com/dpp/news/political/local-company-creates-high-tech--license-plate-scanning-technology</ref>

'''PlateSmart''' Technologies is a [[mass surveillance]] system vendor headquartered in Oldsmar, Florida. Founded in 2004, the company released their first version of the platform in 2008. PlateSmart was originally made for perimeter security. By tapping into CCTV camera feeds, PlateSmart would keep a log of what vehicles were inside a specific area, by Automated License Plate Reading.  In 2012, the platform could was deployed around the RNC convention, allowed "law enforcement to identify the owner of virtually any car that comes near the convention in an instant."<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20140117043219/http://www.abcactionnews.com/dpp/news/political/local-company-creates-high-tech--license-plate-scanning-technology</ref>

However, PlateSmart didn't stop there. By 2023, the platform was a fully-featured replacement for [[Flock Safety]] and its competitors. Performing ALPR post-processing on surveillance video feeds, the system performs analytics on vehicle scans across the world to build a tracking profile on each driver. Their customers can simply identify unwitting drivers, or use the system to locate specific people, or map out their movements over time.<ref>https://platesmart.com/vision/</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3goACTgPy3o</ref><ref>https://platesmart.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/PS-Vision-Brochure-07.31.24.pdf</ref>

However, PlateSmart didn't stop there. By 2023, the platform was a fully-featured replacement for [[Flock Safety]] and its competitors. Performing ALPR post-processing on surveillance video feeds, the system performs analytics on vehicle scans across the world to build a tracking profile on each driver. Their customers can simply identify unwitting drivers, or use the system to locate specific people, or map out their movements over time.<ref>https://platesmart.com/vision/</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3goACTgPy3o</ref><ref>https://platesmart.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/PS-Vision-Brochure-07.31.24.pdf</ref>